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Less than four months after Compuware Corp. terminated his consulting contract, Peter Karmanos Jr. has started another company.

Karmanos launched Mad Dog Technology LLC this month, according to documents from the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs.

Little is known about the Birmingham software company. Its website also reveals few details except the company's address: 233 Pierce St. in downtown Birmingham.

Calls to Mad Dog and an email sent to Karmanos were not immediately returned.

The building was acquired in December for $500,000 by Fuller Central Park Properties LLC. Bozeman Watch Co. currently leases the first-floor retail space.

Ted Fuller, owner of Fuller Central Park, confirmed that a tenant leased the second-floor office space but declined to confirm it was Karmanos' company.

Karmanos co-founded Compuware in 1973 and was its chairman and CEO for most of the years before to his retirement in March 2013. Compuware retained Karmanos as a consultant.

However, the Compuware board terminated his six-year, $600,000-a-year contract in October after he made disparaging comments about the software company's board.

Compuware was in the middle of a battle with the New York City hedge fund Elliott Management Corp., which wanted to buy out Compuware in a $2.3 billion takeover bid.

Karmanos was quoted in a story in the Detroit Free Press as saying, "Current management of Compuware needs to get their head out of their ass, all right, and understand they have more responsibility than playing some kind of silly game with some jerks in New York City."

Elliott and Compuware have since come to an agreement, which included restructuring and two new board members. The new plan includes a reduction of its global workforce and other efficiencies to save $110 million to $120 million.

Karmanos, on the other hand, filed a suit against Compuware in November to recover more than $5 million in lost salary and stock options.

The case was dismissed Jan. 17, and the two parties are arbitrating privately, said Karmanos' attorney, Kevin O'Shea, a partner at Miller Law PC in Rochester. O'Shea declined to discuss details of the arbitration or Mad Dog Technology.